RE: [Best Practices Request] clean/smudge configuration

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On May 9, 2018 6:39 PM, Bryan Turner wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM Randall S. Becker
> <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > The question: what is the best practice for versioning the parts of
> > clean/smudge filters that are in .git/config given that only some
> > users in my environment will be cloning the repository in question and
> > that I
> really
> > can't put the entries in /etc/gitconfig or ~/.gitconfig because of
> potential
> > conflicts with other repositories that might also have clean/smudge
> > definitions.
> 
> Depending on level of trust, one approach might be to use an [include] in
> .git/config to include a file that's in the repository. Something like:
> 
> [include]
>      path = ../path/to/config
> 

What if we create a ../.gitconfig like ../.gitattributes, that is loaded
before .git/config? With loads of warnings in the documentation about what
*NOT* to put in here, any platform specifics and your own risk. The code in
config.c would look like the following, with obvious updates to
documentation and the test suite, so it's not fully baked yet. So far, I
don't have a solution to the chicken-and-egg problem, other than this.
However, if I'm barking up the wrong ballpark...

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index b0c20e6cb..75d5288ff 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1555,11 +1555,15 @@ static int do_git_config_sequence(const struct
config_options *opts,
        char *xdg_config = xdg_config_home("config");
        char *user_config = expand_user_path("~/.gitconfig", 0);
        char *repo_config;
+       char *repo_config_versioned;

-       if (opts->commondir)
+       if (opts->commondir) {
                repo_config = mkpathdup("%s/config", opts->commondir);
-       else
+               repo_config_versioned = mkpathdup("%s/../.gitconfig",
opts->commondir);
+       } else {
                repo_config = NULL;
+               repo_config_versioned = NULL;
+       }

        current_parsing_scope = CONFIG_SCOPE_SYSTEM;
        if (git_config_system() && !access_or_die(git_etc_gitconfig(), R_OK,
0))
@@ -1574,6 +1578,8 @@ static int do_git_config_sequence(const struct
config_options *opts,
                ret += git_config_from_file(fn, user_config, data);

        current_parsing_scope = CONFIG_SCOPE_REPO;
+       if (repo_config_versioned && !access_or_die(repo_config_versioned,
R_OK, 0))
+               ret += git_config_from_file(fn, repo_config_versioned,
data);
        if (repo_config && !access_or_die(repo_config, R_OK, 0))
                ret += git_config_from_file(fn, repo_config, data);

@@ -1585,6 +1591,7 @@ static int do_git_config_sequence(const struct
config_options *opts,
        free(xdg_config);
        free(user_config);
        free(repo_config);
+       free(repo_config_versioned);
        return ret;
 }